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From: walt <w41ter@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 23:48:39
Message-Id: jroek4$9oo$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations by felix@crowfix.com
1 On 06/18/2012 07:28 AM, felix@×××××××.com wrote:
2 > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 06:59:13AM -0700, walt wrote:
3 >> On 06/17/2012 11:16 PM, felix@×××××××.com wrote:
4 >>> I bought a USB 3.0 disk enclosure and the system refused to even
5 >>> acknowledge its presence.
6 >>
7 >> By 'system' do you mean the BIOS, or the kernel driver?
8 >
9 > I plugged them into the USB after boot, so it's the kernel. I didn't
10 > try booting with them.
11 >
12
13 I have an outboard usb3 docking station that needs the xhci driver.
14 Do you have that driver enabled? Maybe one of the many rescue/install
15 CD's will recognize the drive/enclosure combination?

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